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In this text for students in television news and broadcast production courses, Keirstead (Florida A&M University) discusses how television news is produced and introduces the role of digital and automation technologies. Using an accessible and engaging style, he starts with an overview of the newsroom, the role of the news producer, and the basic production activities, then examines the integration of technology throughout the stages of producing a news broadcast.
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Computers In Broadcast and Cable Newsrooms Using Technology in Television News Production LEA's COMMUNICATION SERIES Jennings Bryant / Dolf Zillmann, General Editors Selected Titles in the Communication Series include: Butler • Television: Critical Methods and Applications, Second Edition Eastman • Research in Media Promotion MacFarland • Future Radio Programming Strategies: Cultivating Listenership in the Digital Age, Second Edition Metallinos • Television Aesthetics: Perceptual, Cognitive, and Compositional Bases Orlik • Electronic Media Criticism: Applied Perspectives, Second Edition Plum • Underwriting 101: Selling College Radio Sterling/Kittross • Stay Tuned: A Concise History of American Broadcasting, Third Edition Webster/Phalen/Lichty • Ratings Analysis: The Theory and Practice of Audience Research, Second Edition For a complete list of titles in LEA's Communication Series, please contact Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, at www.erlbaum.com Computers In Broadcast and Cable Newsrooms Using Technology in Television News Production Phillip O. Keirstead, PhD Florida A&M University 2005 LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOCIATES, PUBLISHERS Mahwah, New Jersey London Copyright © 2005 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by photostat, microform, retrieval system, or any ot